Wire package



Patented Sept. 24, 1935 UNHTED STATE Parent 1 QFFEQE WIRE PACKAGEApplication May I, 1935, Serial No. 19,315

5 Claims. (Cl. 206-59) This invention relates to packaging and hasspecial reference to a wire package.

In the formation of wire coils for sale in the so called 5 and centstores and in other places where coils containing comparatively smallquantities of wire are sold it is customary to tie tags to the coils orto put bands around the coils, such tags and bands having the character,size and length of wire in the coil printed on them. When .tags are usedthey have to be detached from the coil to unwind the wire and such tagsare frequently lost or mislaid so that the user no longer knows the sizeof the wire in the coil. Similarly, bands wrapped around the coil haveto be torn ofi when the wire is used.

One important object of the present invention is to provide an improvedwire package wherein the wire is wound in a coil in such manner as tohold a marker in the open center of the coil, the marker being in theform of a card bearing desired information and also, according tocircumstances, advertising matter.

A second important object of the invention is to so arrange the wire andthe card that opposite end portions of the card are embedded in a novelmanner in the coil.

A third important object of the invention is to provide an improvedarrangement of this character wherein the wire bindings commonlyemployed to prevent the coil from unwinding will also act to prevent thecard from slipping out of the coil.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be presentlyunderstood, the invention consists in general of certain novel detailsof construction and combinations of parts hereinafter iully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing like characters or reference indicate likeparts in the several views, and:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the coil and card with the plane on whichthe view is taken at right angles to the axis of the coil.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section through the center of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a plan of the card removed from the coil.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawingthere is disclosed a wire coil Ill of ordinary form. At opposite pointson this coil are provided binder wires II which each extends around thebundle of wire convolutions and has its ends twisted together to holdthe wire from uncoiling.

Associated with this wire coil is a card E2 of general hour-glass shape.This card has arcuate end edges it each terminating in arcuate corneredges 1 t which merge into straight side edge portions is. The side edgeportions at each side of 5 the card are positioned at an obtuse angle toeach other so that a contracted center portion or waist is formedcentrally of the distance between the end edges I3 of the card.Centrally of the card is a circular opening Hi.

It is to be noted that the length of the card between the arcuate endedges i3 is less than the outside diameter of the coil and that thewidth at each end between the corners is greater than the insidediameter. The effect of this is that when the card and coil areassembled the end edges of the card and the portions adjacent said endedges are covered and held by the convolutions of the wire, theseportions being embedded in the coil. The further effect of thisarrangement is that the wires ll prevent the card from pulling out ofthe coil since the ends of the card are too wide to pass between thesewires, the proximal parts of the latter normally engaging in the notchesformed by the angularly disposed side edges of the card.

In constructing the package a rotating mandrel may be provided soarranged as to support the card and the wire wound on this mandrelpartly on one side and partly on the other side of the card so that theend portions of the card will be embedded in opposite portions of thecoil. Obviously, before being wound on the mandrel, the wire may be runthrough a measuring machine to enable the correct length of wire to bewound in the coil.

Advertising matter may be shown on the card as at I! and suitableinformation regarding the wire may be shown as at Hi.

There has thus been provided a simple and 40 efiicient device of thekind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form and construction of'the invention without departing from the material principles involved.It is not therefore desired to confine the invention to the exact formherein shown and described or to wire packaging as the invention can beused for packaging string, rope or other similar substances but it isdesired to include all forms which come within the scope of the appendedclaims.

What is claimed, is:

1. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires atdiametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wiressurrounding the convolutions of the coil at the point at which thebinding wire is applied; of a flat card having end portions embedded inthe coil at opposite points thereof with a material portion of the wireon each side, and having notches in its sides wherein the binding wiresare located and to facilitate the tying of said coil of wire.

2. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires atdiametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wiressurrounding the convolutions of the coil at the point at which thebinding wire is applied; of a card having end portions embedded in thecoil at opposite points thereof, and having notches in its sides whereinthe binding wires are located, the ends of said card being wider thanthe distance between the proximal portions of the binding wires.

3. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires atdiametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wiressurrounding the convolutions of the coil at the point at which thebinding wire is applied; of a card having end portions embedded in thecoil at opposite points thereof, and having notches in its sides whereinthe binding wires are located, the length of the card being less thanthe outside diameter of the coil and the end edges being arcuatelyconcentric to the center of the card.

4. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires atdiametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wiressurrounding the convolutions of the coil at the point at which thebinding wire is applied; of a card having end portions embedded in thecoil at opposite points 5 thereof, and having notches in its sideswherein the binding wires are located, the length of the card being lessthan the outside diameter of the coil and the end edges being arcuatelyconcentric to the center of the card, the ends of said card 10 beingwider than the distance between the proximal portions of the bindingwires.

5. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires atdiametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wiressurrounding 15 the convolutions of the coil at the point at which thebinding Wire is applied; of a card having end portions embedded in thecoil at opposite points thereof, the length of the card being less thanthe outside diameter of the coil, said card having 2 arcuate end edgesconcentric to the center of the card and having side edges eachconsisting of two straight portions arranged at an obtuse angle to eachother to form a waist at the center of the card, said end and side edgesbeing connected by arcuate corners and the ends of the card being ofgreater width than the distance between the proximal parts of thebinding wires.

EDOUARD A. NICOLLET.

